Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine

Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine

In Susan J. Erickson’s highly-crafted collection of poems, LAUREN BACALL SHARES A LIMOUSINE, we return to the women who came before us. From the well-known Frida Kahlo and Marilyn Monroe to the lesser-known Monique Braille and Lucy Audubon, these poems offer surprise, delight, and poignancy. Erickson’s sharp sense of play and imagination is her signature on these poems–the Venus de Milo dresses for a Halloween party, the Little Mermaid joins the Aquatic Arts Academy. The reader is rewarded with every turn of the page as the lives (both real and imagined) are spoken, explored, and expanded. Here, women stretch in the spaces “of the calm and chaos of sunrise and sunset, / the shimmer of amber, / the roar from the lion’s mouth.” Smart and accessible, these poems satisfy our desire for stories, and Erickson doesn’t disappoint. Recommended for every bookshelf.

–Kelli Russell Agodon, Author of HOURGLASS MUSEUM

About the women in the book

If you would like to read more about the women in the poems here are some of the resources I consulted for the poems in Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine:

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The banner photograph is of Plaza Blanca, or the White Place, near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Georgia O’Keeffe painted a number of her most well known paintings of the sandstone cliffs. Read the poem in her voice titled “Miss O’Keeffe at the White Place.” Photo credit: George Lindeman.